British Workers Throw Out Tories But Labour Party Offers No Way Forward

All eyes here in the United States are on the American Presidential election, but fifty countries are hosting major elections in 2024. Britain, France, Taiwan and India are among the countries that have already had theirs.

This week, On Strike is joined by James Kerr, a London-based English teacher, the Lewisham Branch secretary of the British National Education Union (NEU), a member of the NEU National Executive, and a socialist.

Watch now to hear a socialist, working-class analysis from James Kerr and Kshama Sawant of the results of the British election, and what’s next for working people.

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In the U.K. elections, we saw the Tories, the conservative party, lose humiliatingly but expectedly after 14 years in power, putting the British Labor Party at the helm of a country in crisis. The election was far less of a vote of confidence in the Labor Party and its leader, Keir Starmer than it was a vote against the Tories - a throw-the-bums-out anti-incumbency mood. In fact, this was the lowest turnout election in Britain in more than a century.

We also saw a landslide election of Jeremy Corbyn as an independent Left candidate, after Starmer’s wing of the Labor Party undemocratically blocked him from running as a Labor candidate. Corbyn’s position against the Israeli state’s genocidal war on Gaza undoubtedly played a role in his decisive win.

What should workers conclude from the Tories’ loss and Corbyn’s victory? And what will actually be needed to build a new party, and to strengthen and connect our movements internationally? Watch now!